Field-Correlation Effects on Rayleigh-Enhanced Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing

We study Rayleigh-enhanced nondegenerate four-wave mixing(NFWM) with time-delayed, correlated fluctuating fields. The importance of the field correlation is revealed in the Rayleigh-enhanced NFWM spectrum when the time delay is varied. The Rayleigh-enhanced NFWM is employed to study the ultrafast processes in the frequency domain. A relaxation time as short as 220 fs was deduced in the Rayleigh-enhanced NFWM experiments in carbon disulfide.